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She shall have her own money, and spend it for anything she pleases, and she needn't do a stitch o' work from mohnin' till night. But if you're afraid I shall put upon her" "No, no," said the rector, and he threw back his head with a laugh. "When it was all arranged, a few days later, after the verification of certain of Mrs.
Ramshorn in her niece was equaled only by her disgust at the object of her choice. With a firm, dignified step, as if he measured the distance, the rector paced the pavement between the inn and the Manor House. He knew of no cause for the veiling of an eyelash before human being.
Pascal dressed simply, as became the wife of a country rector; and Phebe, in her studio, always wore a blouse or apron of brown holland, which suited her well, making her homely and domestic in appearance as she was in nature. Felicita looked like a queen in his eyes.
Clavering was sitting alone. He looked, as he ever did, serious, composed, ill-dressed, and like a gentleman. Of course he must have supposed that the present rector would make some change in his mode of living, and could not be surprised that he should have been summoned to the rectory; but he was surprised that the summons should have come from Mrs. Clavering, and not from the rector himself.
Nobody would even have read it if atheism had been its only recommendation. The wise indifference of the wise had relieved true religion from the paralysis of official patronage. But in 1849 the action of the Rector and Fellows was heartily applauded by the Visitor, Bishop Phillpotts, the famous Henry of Exeter. Their behaviour was conscientious, and Dr.
"Your Excellency will readily believe that unless I had strong and what I conceive to be imperative grounds for my proceeding, one of the last things which I could possibly be prompted to do would be to bring under the notice of Her Majesty's Government any disadvantageous exhibition of the management of important public interests in the hands of one of my own Clergy, and one who occupies so prominent a position in the Canadian Church as the Rector of Montreal.
The brief epistle had not then arrived, and they were, in truth, anxious that she should go; but one cannot tell one's visitor to depart from one's house without a downright rupture. Not even the rector himself dared to make such rupture, without express sanction from the Earl. Then Lady Anna, feeling that she must ask advice, wrote to her mother.
Much use ut is to be married to a public man! Ah! surs, I'm mighty tired of ut, now I tell ye!" Yet she laughed again, without betraying much fatigue. "And how's Dr. Sevier?" "He's well," said the clergyman. "And Mrs. Richling?" "She's well, too." Kate looked at the little rector out of the corners of her roguish Irish eyes, a killing look, and said: "Ye're sure the both o' thim bees well?"
"I know; but I do not like you to turn faint in this way. May I ask you a few questions about yourself?" "Oh, yes I know that you are quite a doctor!" said Enid, smiling at him with perfect confidence. So the Rector put his questions and very strange questions some of them were, thought Enid, though he was wonderfully correct in guessing what she felt.
To think of him as rector of Wentworth inwardly chafed the spirit of the Perpetual Curate.
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